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In addition to longer-lasting replaceable batteries I wanted to suggest some other stuff (nucleovisual.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by viov@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.org
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Hoping many European Union people, all of us, keep pushing for these to happen too by adding these onto what we want. Also this list will evolve overtime.

Open Source Related//

  • Making proper full open source be one of the primary objectives across the whole EU. With GPL being a big focus
  • Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android to reverse their upcoming action to lock it down.
  • Allowing people to put Linux on any of their devices, phones and tablets, and vehicles
  • Suggested by another user in DM: Having Android and IOS owned by EU people and made fully open-source with GPL-license. So we know the OS'es aren't doing anything shady and have full control over our own devices
  • Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software/OS be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS to make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody and to tune it as needed/wanted
  • Having JavaScript be owned by the people and fully open-sourced in Europe (Not trademarked, and kept locked down. This is holding the Web back a lot)

Internet Related//

  • Making Internet Service Providers, and the infrastructure be owned by the people through cooperation's, etc be more commonplace

Device/Vehicle Related//

  • Suggested by another person: Size of the phone/tablet/laptop/car/other vehicle types batteries size to be standardized so we can still get a replacememt battery for our device/vehicle even if its been a decade or 2
  • Suggested by another person: Standardizing components of a car to be more repairable

Phone Related//

  • Suggested by another person in DM: Making Phone OEM's and then Tablet OEM's within Europe. As I hope Asian, African, and Latin countries will do too
  • Edit based on another person's suggestion: Mandating phones to have a microSD card slot, and 1TB as a storage option to purchase
  • Mandating banks and other service providers to provide apks directly or through F-Droid, and Accrescent
  • Suggested by another person: Making Samsung use fastboot instead of Odin because the fact that you have to basically use leaked tools from Samsung just to flash an Android ROM is insane.

Also they should make their activation codes in English because the only sentence I know in Chinese is Nihao.

Other//

  • Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of. Can just be the basics up to uni. Having it be where the education is able to be used by the student in their own and neighboring countries only. Certain countries cough cough USA for example cough really need it. (We affect the world and they affect us. Let's save ourselves future headaches by helping undo some problems where we can. Illiteracy, and no morality being huge problems in various parts of the world that directly affects many things, people/countries worldwide, and various decisions that can have/have had many consequences. A simple solution is education to help individuals become better people, and to be educated in general)

For Funsies//

  • Videogames have to work offline (Ubisoft/EA/Etc for example)
  • Videogames must offer the ability to run community-run servers when the game has shut down
  • Personal Suggestion: Videogames and Software that become abandonware need to be open-sourced

Things get better when we all collectively get things done. We will get to what we all want that are beneficial to all European Union people!! Problem-solving and unity makes anything happen!

Edit: Please save this list to make use of and add on what you think would truly help all of us in EU

Edit 2: The overall encompassing theme is ownership. The people deserve to own what they use. For what they already own, and new things they will soon own.

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[โ€“] viov@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Makes sense I like your suggestion. It is definitely a better want of what people would want to have